- Is It Better to Buy or Rent? (via Patrik)
- Neil Smith (the father of the Gentrification theory) has passed away.
- New survey paper on what economists know about “brain drain”/“brain gain”). via MR
- The New Science of Viral Ads by Thales S. Teixeira (Harvard)
- Germans are five times more likely than Americans to travel by mass transport (the paper is here)
- Book: The Demography of Health and Healthcare
- The demographic transition may be the result of a mismatch between ancient psychology and the modern world (via @blqueiroz)
- Call for Abstracts: 9th International Space Syntax Symposium
- Car use is peaking in the rich world
[image credit: The Economist]